On Tuesday, I stopped over in London to have lunch with John Pearson (Vice President for Operations, FIE) and to attend a lecture and a play with Dominic Janes (Director of Academic Programmes, FIE). Dominic and I attended the "Setting the Scene" lecture on "Love's Labour's Lost" by Michael Cordner from the University of York. We then saw the play afterwards, and here is the description from the Globe:
Artistic Director Dominic Dromgoole directs a young company of rising talent in the Globe’s first production of Love’s Labour’s Lost
Artistic Director of Shakespeare’s Globe, Dominic Dromgoole, directs his first production of the 2007 season, Love’s Labour’s Lost. Dromgoole has assembled a cast of rising talent – Gemma Arterton who joins the company straight from Cannes where she was unveiled as the lead in the new St Trinian’s film. Also joining Arterton direct from drama school are Oona Chaplin and David Oakes.
They are joined by Trystan Gravelle, recently nominated for the Ian Charleson Award, Michelle Terry who won great critical acclaim for her roles in the RSC’s The Crucible and The Winter’s Tale last year, and Kobna Holdbrook-Smith – acclaimed for his work at the Tricycle and Manchester Royal Exchange.
The young cast of new talent is ably supported by a company including John Bett, Christopher Godwin, William Mannering and Timothy Walker.
Self-denial is in fashion at the court of Navarre where the young King and three of his courtiers solemnly forswear all pleasures in favour of serious study. But the Princess of France and her all-too-lovely entourage have other ideas and it isn’t long before young love, with its glad eyes, hesitations and embarrassments, has broken every self-imposed rule of the all-male ‘academe’.
Shakespeare’s boisterous send-up of all those who try to turn their back on life, is a festive parade of every weapon in the youthful playwright’s comic arsenal: from excruciating cross-purposes and impersonations, to drunkenness, bust-ups and pratfalls. Even more, it is a joyful banquet of language, groaning with puns, rhymes, bizarre syntax, grotesque coinages and parodies. This heady combination enjoys its first ever outing at the Globe this season.
The production opens on 11 July, with previews from 1 July, and runs until 7 October.
Artistic Director of Shakespeare’s Globe, Dominic Dromgoole, directs his first production of the 2007 season, Love’s Labour’s Lost. Dromgoole has assembled a cast of rising talent – Gemma Arterton who joins the company straight from Cannes where she was unveiled as the lead in the new St Trinian’s film. Also joining Arterton direct from drama school are Oona Chaplin and David Oakes.
They are joined by Trystan Gravelle, recently nominated for the Ian Charleson Award, Michelle Terry who won great critical acclaim for her roles in the RSC’s The Crucible and The Winter’s Tale last year, and Kobna Holdbrook-Smith – acclaimed for his work at the Tricycle and Manchester Royal Exchange.
The young cast of new talent is ably supported by a company including John Bett, Christopher Godwin, William Mannering and Timothy Walker.
Self-denial is in fashion at the court of Navarre where the young King and three of his courtiers solemnly forswear all pleasures in favour of serious study. But the Princess of France and her all-too-lovely entourage have other ideas and it isn’t long before young love, with its glad eyes, hesitations and embarrassments, has broken every self-imposed rule of the all-male ‘academe’.
Shakespeare’s boisterous send-up of all those who try to turn their back on life, is a festive parade of every weapon in the youthful playwright’s comic arsenal: from excruciating cross-purposes and impersonations, to drunkenness, bust-ups and pratfalls. Even more, it is a joyful banquet of language, groaning with puns, rhymes, bizarre syntax, grotesque coinages and parodies. This heady combination enjoys its first ever outing at the Globe this season.
The production opens on 11 July, with previews from 1 July, and runs until 7 October.
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